Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
United Kingdom • Age 84
Joined myLot 9 years ago
I joined the writing and computer world very late in life, aged 73. I love gardening and animals.
Jabo's Discussions
Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
24 Feb 22
Reading Judy Evan's post about someone wearing odd shoes reminded me of the time my husband took odd shoes when we were going on a cruise.
They were trainer type shoes (which I believe are called sneakers in the States) and he...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 22
One good thing about living on my own is that I can watch whatever
I want to on the television.
When my husband was alive I watched very little because our tastes
differed so widely. In his latter years TV was his main source...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
11 Feb 22
I take paying guests and I've had a lot of interesting people to stay.
One young man seemed very pleasant and once he'd settled in asked if he
could talk to me. I said yes of course, and he told me he'd just been
released from a...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
6 Feb 22
Youngsters who think we've no brains now we're older
don't realise that these years can be golder
they look at us and assume things are grim
these are a few of my unfavourite things.
At times we might have some trouble in...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
3 Feb 22
The title is a quote attributed to Mark Twain but it seems that it may apply to me.
Yes, I haven't been here for some time, but no - I am not dead.
The subject was brought up in Kandase's post 'Where Are They Now' so I thought...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
18 Jun 21
I was lonely, went online and joined a dating site,
perhaps I'd find a man that way who'd be my Mr Right.
I met a U.S. businessman who travels far abroad,
we have so much in common, he really strikes a chord.
I asked him what he...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
12 Apr 21
My son and his wife were in Thailand when the pandemic really started to get going and all flights were cancelled so they were unable to get home.
They were worried about their apartment as they top up their electricity with a...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
31 Mar 21
This story is all about Fred
who seemed to have died in his bed,
but woke up at the wake
cried "there's been a mistake",
they'd had a fine party instead.
But blood from his wife's cheeks had fled,
in some consternation she...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
29 Mar 21
There was an old fellow called Fred
who sadly had died in his bed,
a grand wake was planned
the venue was crammed
as word of his passing had spread.
While friends were all supping their beers
and some even mopping their...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
26 Mar 21
If you are one of a couple do you always sleep on the same side of the bed?
I was talking to a friend yesterday and she said that she and her husband don't - whoever gets to bed first decides which side they want.
That seems...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
24 Mar 21
It was my daughter's 50th birthday yesterday so I wrote a poem for her and put it on Facebook, along with a photo of her as a baby.
She wrote back "Have you got the wrong baby?" I said of course I hadn't and then my sister joined...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar 21
Pigeons keep flying into my windows, sometimes killing themselves, sometimes not. I've had four do this in the last few weeks, one on the living room window, the rest on the upstairs bedrooms.
I could understand them crashing...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
14 Mar 21
You might think the phrase 'mad as a hatter' stems from Alice In Wonderland but I looked it up and it dates from 17th century French hat-makers.
It seems they used mercury in the felt-making process and it gradually poisoned...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 21
I had a young friend who was very adventurous despite having been paralysed in an accident.
We were in Tenerife and she saw people parasailing and wanted to try it herself. It involves sitting in a boat attached to a specially...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
7 Mar 21
Someone once told me that I put too many poems on this site, and that this is a place for discussions, not poetry.
To me it seems a bit odd to dismiss a post just because of it's form without considering it's content.
Obviously...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
6 Mar 21
I got some flowers from a friend, I wondered how she'd guessed
of all the flowers in the world they were what I liked best.
I welcomed her said please come in, we'll have some tea and buns
the flowers that you've brought for me...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
26 Feb 21
Some of you liked the post I put up a while ago about the verbal jousting between the late Koalemos (Barry) amd myself, so here's some more. This was on a post where I talked about our repartee. We have a surprise visitor joining...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
23 Feb 21
A bubble bath just proved to be
a bit too expensive for me,
so I ate lots of beans
and you know what that means?
yaay - I got all my bubbles for free.
(Of course now I might need pot-pourri !)
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 21
We have been under lockdown in England since just after Christmas, and for me personally it hasn't been too bad.
We are allowed to go out for one period of exercise per day and must stay in our local area - my daily walk doesn't...
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
17 Feb 21
I got a wonderful offer from Amazon - fill in a survey then claim a reward. So I did the survey, just the usual questions - did the parcels arrive on time etc, then saw what the offers were.
Any top quality smartphone (worth...
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